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by ashcat_lt
Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:40 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?
Replies: 43
Views: 74686

Re: Happy Black Friday! Did you get anything?

Not really BF anything, but yesterday I found a pair of AT U891RCX boundary mics for like $35 a piece on Amazon Warehouse Deals, which if they actually work and include the cables is a frickin steal. Also an AT2035 for less than $100, which means I'll now have a pair, FWIW.
by ashcat_lt
Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:00 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Cheap Sleeper Fuzz Pedals for Guitar
Replies: 27
Views: 19402

Re: Cheap Sleeper Fuzz Pedals for Guitar

vvv wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:36 pm
...the Catalinbread Octapussy...
Almost kinda the opposite of "cheap sleeper". Not exactly the most expensive boutique fancy crap out there, but... ;)
by ashcat_lt
Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:20 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Cheap Sleeper Fuzz Pedals for Guitar
Replies: 27
Views: 19402

Re: Cheap Sleeper Fuzz Pedals for Guitar

...altho' I swear I can only ever almost barely hear the high octave unless it's really loud... I don't think the HyperFuzz is really meant as a true octave up fuzz, and I've never really heard that effect from it. With most octave fuzz type, you get the most clear octave up effect usually by using...
by ashcat_lt
Thu Aug 12, 2021 4:24 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Cheap Sleeper Fuzz Pedals for Guitar
Replies: 27
Views: 19402

Re: Cheap Sleeper Fuzz Pedals for Guitar

Also, the Behringer SF300 gets a lot of love under US$50 - I've not tried it. This was going to be my suggestion. It's a clone of the Boss HyperFuzz, which itself is switchable between two different transistor-based fuzzes AND a good clean boost mode. I've used both the Boss original and the Behrin...
by ashcat_lt
Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:12 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Cable management trick
Replies: 10
Views: 2150

Re: Cable management trick

I just use the blue painter's tape for most semi-permanent stickifications. A while back, I bought a set of thin little tapes in 8 colors that I use for coding cables which aren't themselves colored. Certainly not trying to argue with you at all. I can see where this pipe cleaner trick could give yo...
by ashcat_lt
Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:53 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: mastering, limiter, diy.
Replies: 25
Views: 5359

Re: mastering, limiter, diy.

Scodiddly wrote:
Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:19 am
So I'm "mastering", as it were, as if I was living in the 1950's.
Yeah talk to Cosimo Matassa about the "arrogance" of mixing live to acetate. :)
by ashcat_lt
Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:53 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: mastering, limiter, diy.
Replies: 25
Views: 5359

Re: mastering, limiter, diy.

I mean, you're not going to get to that "perfect world" if you keep kicking your cans down the road hoping somebody will fix the stuff you left sorta fucked. I'm really not arguing against the benefits of using an outside ME, and honestly I'm not the one who made up this slogan "(try to) leave the M...
by ashcat_lt
Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:03 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: mastering, limiter, diy.
Replies: 25
Views: 5359

Re: mastering, limiter, diy.

There's so, so much more to mastering than just making shit loud. Fuckin right, and kind of what I came here to say, though most of the things you mentioned are for me more like "fixing the mix", which I honestly don't think should be the ME's job. If we're talking about a single standalone piece w...
by ashcat_lt
Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:15 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Side chain filtering for SSL bus comp
Replies: 10
Views: 2593

Re: Side chain filtering for SSL bus comp

I feel like if you're going that far, in many cases you could just do a pre-emphasis/de-emphasis thing. One EQ before the comp to take the bass out and one after to put it back in. In analog, that might cause some compromise in the S/N, but only in that low frequency area where it might not even be ...
by ashcat_lt
Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:54 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: simple level control device?
Replies: 13
Views: 2372

Re: simple level control device?

Quick and dirty: A typical passive DI box is a voltage step-down, and if that's not enough, they very often will have switches for additional padding.
by ashcat_lt
Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:28 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Out of phase guitars
Replies: 8
Views: 1762

Re: Out of phase guitars

You didn't ask, but of course the final polarity of the output of any given amp depends on a number of things. Most preamp tube stages are inverting, so how many of those it goes through makes a difference. In some amps, one channel will have a different number of inverting stages from the other, so...
by ashcat_lt
Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Truth time- incredibly dumb things you did when you didn't know any better
Replies: 35
Views: 7653

Re: Truth time- incredibly dumb things you did when you didn't know any better

Ha. Yeah I had a very similar experience a couple years ago... I tracked, mixed, and mastered a whole split record for a pair of bands, and they dubbed the distribution cassettes by playing it from a computer into a guitar amp and capturing it on tape recorders they'd got from Goodwill. Was grindco...
by ashcat_lt
Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:42 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: DAW as live mixer suggestions
Replies: 12
Views: 2154

Re: DAW as live mixer suggestions

I'm so confused. You said (and I agree) that stock plugins would probably be fine, but then you're talking about 3rd party plugins from UAD and Waves? What you didn't mention is which DAW you're using, but I do know that with Reaper and a halfway decent machine, you'd ought to be able to get 20 trac...
by ashcat_lt
Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:57 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Can Someone Explain Why This Isn't Working To Me
Replies: 3
Views: 1499

Re: Can Someone Explain Why This Isn't Working To Me

I used to do a lot of syncing of midi devices both to FSK and SMPTE/MTC, but I never had to cross the streams (had machines that just followed FSK natively and have never used a converter like you've got), and also it was almost 20 years ago when I stopped needing it, and I've killed most of the bra...
by ashcat_lt
Wed Dec 25, 2019 2:50 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Your storage solutions - esp for cables
Replies: 9
Views: 2805

Re: Your storage solutions - esp for cables

I just kind of happened to have a spare keyboard stand around, so most of my mic cables hang off of that. Then I decided to move the dresser out of my kids' room to give them more space, so I moved that to studio. It's got four drawers - headphones and stuff, mic and stuff, adapters and DIs and stuf...